Mansell, Francis Joseph

Birth Details
1896/5157, Francis Joseph Mansell, Mother: Elizabeth, Father: Alfred John

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database Records
Full Name Francis Joseph Mansell
Rank Last Held Rifleman
Forename(s) Francis Joseph
Surname Mansell
War World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No. 45709
First Known Rank Rifleman
Occupation before Enlistment Railway porter
Next of Kin Mrs E. Mansell (mother), Matamau, Hawke''s Bay, New Zealand
Body on Embarkation New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Embarkation Unit Reinforcements H Company
Embarkation Date 26 April 1917
Place of Embarkation Wellington, New Zealand
Transport HMNZT 84
Vessel Turakina
Destination Plymouth, England
Nominal Roll Number 62
Page on Nominal Roll 33
Last Unit Served New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Place of Death Ypres, Belgium
Date of Death 12 October 1917
Year of Death 1917
Cause of Death Killed in action
Archives NZ source Military personnel file
Sources Used Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1918

Evening Post 6 November 1917
MANSELL.- Killed in action, somewhere in Frances, on the 12th October, 1917, Frank, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Mansell, of Hawkes Bay, and grandson of Mr. Henry Sawin, of Lower Hutt.
Hie died for those he loved.
Inserted by his loving aunt, Mrs. W. Pilcher.
Hawkes Bay papers please copy.